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April 1: In a report for NCC, Frazer A. Thompson talked some about
his experiences with the White community. Some of his most important observations follow. He interviewed Sheriff Cauthen, Mr.
Herrington Rimmer, Father Moran, Rev. Richard Harbison, and Phil
Mulllns. ".../Mr. Rimmer/ describes himself as one of the two
men in the community (Editor Mulllns the other) who honestly
believe the negro has been ill-treated and has a just grievance."
"To me...Father Horan stated that 'Negroes are immoral, uneducated, with no ambition. Just look at the way they live...
everyone of them with a TV and a fine car. Only ten percent of
them are married...There are five kinds of law in Canton-between
Negro and Negro, white and white, Negro and white and white and
Negro.jl." /Richard Harbisonj/ "I hadn't intended to go to the
White Citizen's meeting"*, but Phil L'ullins encouraged me to go,
to get the pulse of the community. I did, tool These people
are determined not to -^ive an Inch. They are 1(D0^ united. Until
last week (prior to the February 25 meeting) Canton's relations
with the Negro were on a personal, individualistic basis. Nov;
we find them ljnlted, and we don't know what to do about it...
Eleven of the forty-five leading members of the White Citizen's
Council are in the Presbvterian Church." /Phil Mullinsj/
"My father and I have preached better treatment for the Negro for
years, t<° no avail. They listen^ and read, but do no+ follow.
We had a White Citizen's Council organized in 1954, but since then
It has been dormant, until Tuesday. Every business has been forced
to sign Up, even me. There is no Question by what the Negro has
not gotten his fair shako. And the whites are not going to give
ur their privileges.. .T'^is voter registration push isn't '"oing
to succeed either. The State of Mississinpi has frankly seen to
that In its registration law. What 1s really effective"is the
Economic Boycott. And the retail merchants have lost 50,^ of their
Easter business. Som^ of them are already saying we've just
got to come to terms, but the majority won't listen..."
June 18: The MCH, under its new editor, editorialized against
Freedom Days, marches, and agitators in general: "Such 'marches'
are staged, and we use the word 'staged1 advisedly, by imported
trained agitators..." "If rights werc really the ///js/f/yf point
in Question marche s would as soon walk singl}'- or in nairs as they
are nermittod to do in Canton, as to rmareh* in groups. Such
"•'groups*" are far closer to 'rnobs' than to marchers.. .the object
sought is disorder not rights; mob violence, not Justice."
Cn the same day, Phil Mulllns wrote from Arkansas said, "'The voter
registration leaders have created serious economic dislocations
in'this community, which are hurting both Negroes and foites, and
they are risking even more- they are risking violence. Cn the
other hand... reasonable leaders in the white community cannot
deny that the local government has not given the Negro community
a number of things wvlcb they would have gotten had~the Negroes
the power of th°^ballot...Unless the adamant stand on both~sides
is moderated somewhat, this conflict is rapidly apnroaching the
noint of no return...

This folder includes several eye-opening reports about Canton, Mississippi. It opens with an unfinished 1965 "Fact Sheet on Voter Registration and Freedom Days [in Canton]" detailing several attempts by African Americans to register to vote at the Madison County Courthouse and their treatment by registrar Foote Campbell and local police and sheriffs. It is followed by a 1964 "White Community - Fact Sheet" a report about Canton's White Citizen Council members and their affiliation with local banks, hospitals, schools, law enforcement, and commodity food distribution; white clergy; and law enforcement officials. There's a 1964 "Fact Sheet on School Boycott and School Integration" which describes efforts to integrate the white Canton high school and white resistance to it. There's a summary of incidents and arrests that took place in Canton in January 1964. It ends with a (monthly?) budget for the Madison County and Leake County COFO projects and a handwritten 1964 list of "major events in the last two months."

Copyright to these documents belongs to the individuals who created them or the organizations for which they worked. The principal organizations have been defunct for many years and copyright to their unpublished records is uncertain. We share them here strictly for non-profit educational purposes. We have attempted to contact individuals who created personal papers of significant length or importance. Nearly all have generously permitted us to include their work. If you believe that you possess copyright to material included here, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. Under the fair use provisions of the U.S. copyright law, teachers and students are free to reproduce any document for nonprofit classroom use. Commercial use of copyright-protected material is generally prohibited.

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April 1: In a report for NCC, Frazer A. Thompson talked some about
his experiences with the White community. Some of his most important observations follow. He interviewed Sheriff Cauthen, Mr.
Herrington Rimmer, Father Moran, Rev. Richard Harbison, and Phil
Mulllns. ".../Mr. Rimmer/ describes himself as one of the two
men in the community (Editor Mulllns the other) who honestly
believe the negro has been ill-treated and has a just grievance."
"To me...Father Horan stated that 'Negroes are immoral, uneducated, with no ambition. Just look at the way they live...
everyone of them with a TV and a fine car. Only ten percent of
them are married...There are five kinds of law in Canton-between
Negro and Negro, white and white, Negro and white and white and
Negro.jl." /Richard Harbisonj/ "I hadn't intended to go to the
White Citizen's meeting"*, but Phil L'ullins encouraged me to go,
to get the pulse of the community. I did, tool These people
are determined not to -^ive an Inch. They are 1(D0^ united. Until
last week (prior to the February 25 meeting) Canton's relations
with the Negro were on a personal, individualistic basis. Nov;
we find them ljnlted, and we don't know what to do about it...
Eleven of the forty-five leading members of the White Citizen's
Council are in the Presbvterian Church." /Phil Mullinsj/
"My father and I have preached better treatment for the Negro for
years, t

Copyright to these documents belongs to the individuals who created them or the organizations for which they worked. The principal organizations have been defunct for many years and copyright to their unpublished records is uncertain. We share them here strictly for non-profit educational purposes. We have attempted to contact individuals who created personal papers of significant length or importance. Nearly all have generously permitted us to include their work. If you believe that you possess copyright to material included here, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. Under the fair use provisions of the U.S. copyright law, teachers and students are free to reproduce any document for nonprofit classroom use. Commercial use of copyright-protected material is generally prohibited.